Re: why does make check run all tests?

[Stephen Leake]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Phillip Lord) writes:
>
>> Should make check just not build incrementally? If you want to run
>> everything unconditionally, then why not use
>>
>> make clean check
>>
>> Or am I missing something obvious? In which case, I will need to restore
>> the old behaviour for make check and leave make check-maybe as is.
>
> "make check" is not intented to check, whether a *changed* file still
> runs successfully. "make check" is intended to run a full regression
> test over Emacs. Pls keep this functionality.

Especially since the dependencies are not complete; elisp-mode-tests.el
only depends on elisp-mode.el, not on the transitive require closure.

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